Mathematics – Logic
Scientific paper
Sep 1997
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1997phdt.........8w&link_type=abstract
Thesis (PHD). BROWN UNIVERSITY , Source DAI-B 59/04, p. 1696, Oct 1998, 196 pages.
Mathematics
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Scientific paper
There is a wealth of information contained in the spatial temperature distribution of the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation (CMB) >From the pioneering discovery of anisotropy by the COBE satellite to the latest balloon payloads and ground based observations, measurements of the CMB have become the cornerstone of our current understanding of the Universe. Currently, the second generation of CMB experiments are coming on-line. With improved detectors and novel observing strategies, these experiments are destined to make the transition from 'discovering' the anisotropy in the CMB to making precision measurements of the spatial correlation function. Herein I describe the most recent of these second generation experiments: the Medium Scale Anisotropy Measurement (MSAM II). MSAM II is a balloon-based telescope with a bolometric receiver cooled by an Adiabatic Demagnetization Refrigerator to 100 mK. MSAM II samples the sky with a 20 prime FWHM beam swept with a triangle wave at 2.5 Hz and will make a precision measurement of the spatial correlation function from 1 = 100 to 1 = 500. In addition to a comprehensive discussion of the fabrication and development of the cryogenic and optical systems of MSAM II, I present a novel method of estimating cosmological parameters from anisotropy measurements using a maximum Likelihood technique which employs the full covariance matrix of observations. This method has been used on the combined three years of MSAM I datasets to constrain the mass fraction of baryons in the universe, ΩB, as well as a number of other cosmological parameters.
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